The Supreme Court on Wednesday pronounced its verdict on a bunch of petitions challenging the Delhi High Court judgement decriminalising gay sex among consenting adults in private. dna takes a look at all the brands and the messages conveyed in support of the LGBT community.
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of India took a regressive step and upheld Section 377 of IPC that legalises consensual relations between homosexual people. This law was called unconstitutional and referred to the Parliament for further citation.

Members of the community expressed shock and betrayal over this criminalisation as they could not believe that a law that was passed in 2009 would be repealed pushing them back into the ‘closet existence’.

While many celebrities and politicians expressed their ire followed by the civil society, even brands had a story to tell quite creatively. we take a look here:

1. Amul

Amul is known for taking up current affairs and issues as part of its campaign-advertisements.

Tanishq had garnered a ‘thumbs up’ for its advertisement featuring a woman getting remarried.

Now, sticking true to its earlier stand, Tanishq reiterates its stand on ‘Free choice to right’ with this poster. Extremely vocal about gay rights, this ad is a winner promoting the jewellery brand while standing for a cause.

3. Fastrack

Known to focus on the ‘youth brigade’, fast track has really outdone itself with this campaign.

The brand had created similar posters after the High Court verdict and decided to be vocal about the #SEC377 of IPC and human rights with two posters.

-Taking the quote ‘Come out of the closet’ quite literally.

4. Collezioni Moda

Lifestyle and accessories brand Collezioni Moda strongly protested against Supreme Court’s decision by releasing a poster with a strong message that was a paraphrasing of the title, ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’

5.Random House India

Leading English-language book publisher Random House questioned the validity of Supreme Court’s judgement by featuring Benjamin Law’s book Gaysia and asking people for their opinion on the judgement.

6. Poster by Jawaharlal Nehru university’s students

A poster depicting an altered national emblem where two lions are seen ‘Kissing’ while the third one is expressing shock was applauded by Twitter users.

Even ‘Satyamev Jayate’ has been changed to ‘state of love,’ to convey the message strongly.

7. Allen Solly

A two-decade old men’s fashion brand Allen Solly came out in support of the gay community with a strong poster.

8. Night-club KittySu

The night-club KittySu posted a tweet along with an image in support of the LGBT community.

9. Simply Potatoes

Simply Potatoes, an initiative by WTF hospitality also supported the LGBT community with a cutesy poster featuring two potatoes and caption, ‘Love needs no law’. Kudos!

10. Hidesign

Indian luxury brand Hidesign supported repealing of section 377 with this poster strongly.

11. Beforeafter.in

Shopping portal Beforeafter.in came out with a coupon that will deduct a total of Rs 337 INR from the final bill.

This probably was a strong way of passing the message against Supreme courts judgement criminalising gay sex.

Author’s take: After the Supreme Court upheld the Delhi High Court’s judgement against section 377, social media has been buzzing with protests such as, ‘gay for a day’ and twitter has been buzzing with hashtags, #377, #GayRights #SCHearing amongst others.

People have pro-actively taken to expressing their dissent over the decision. So, when established and new brands entered the fray by supporting the cause, it shows the general public sentiment.